In November of 2008 Mayor Nutter began holding “townhall meetings” where he unveiled the City of Philadelphia’s 2009 budget that spends $1.1 billion on police and prisons, instead of economic development for the African community. Because the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (INPDUM) has worked to expose and defeat Mayor Nutter’s colonial war budget the City has been attempting to silence InPDUM…

December 10, 2008: InPDUM organizer Diop Olugbala serves Nutter with the People’s Subpoena to appear at the InPDUM-led Tribunal (court) for Reparations to African People. The City was to face charges of crimes of genocide including police violence and government imposed poverty.

December 13, 2008: Members of the community testify against the City of Philadelphia at the tribunal. The People’s Verdict was that Nutter and the City were guilty of crimes of genocide against African people!

December 18, 2008: Police attack InPDUM and remove Diop from the Mayor’s Townhall Meeting at Martin Luther King High School after attempting to serve Mayor Nutter with the People’s Verdict. The Verdict called for the jailing of killer cops and reparations to police murder victims. March 19, 2009: Again, police attack Diop and fellow InPDUM member Shabaka Mnombatha during a City Council meeting where Nutter was to unveil the 2010 war budget. Diop and Shabaka were holding up signs protesting Nutter’s war budget when the cops brutally attacked them. They were charged with assault on the police!

June, 16 2009: Judge Frank “Fumble” Palumbo recuses himself from reconsideration hearing after receiving stack of hundreds of petitions and a swarm of phone calls from InPDUM members and supporters from around the world demanding Hands off the City Hall 2!

July, 1 2009: Courts appoint neo-colonial Judge Renee Cardwell-Hughes (L) to preside over the reconsideration hearing. In the process of slapping the felony charges back on Diop’s case Hughes attacks City Hall 2 supporters who attended the hearing, calling them jackasses and demanding they submit their driver’s licenses. The felony trial was set for November 20…

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